KALAMKANIPPU...(Pot Festival)...Performed only in the village of Pallakunnu and no other place this celebration is annually practiced...thousands of ladies from five neighbouring panchayats converge on Shree Bhagavathi Temple with earthenware pots full of rice, jaggery and coconuts...on arrival the men of the temple mix and cook the offerings in large vessels, then refill the pots for the womenfolk to take home the following day when cool with a blended stew of everyone’s rice and a different pot to that they had brought...the normally tranquil holy place is a hive of frantic activity for the day all to the beat of rhythmic drums.(3:33)
